As 2011 wraps up and we look back on the campaign preseason, the ups and downs of what’s been a colorful GOP presidential primary have given us plenty of hilarious, bizarre, cringeworthy, and stomach-churning moments, some deserving of the worst (or maybe I mean best?) train-wreck television.

Herman Cain’s alleged sexual misconduct sagas seemed perfectly scripted for Jerry Springer. All that was missing was the chair-throwing and an eleventh-hour paternity test.

The pseudoserious and fully sanctimonious “probe” into the one-time name of Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s ranch might as well have played out on Geraldo Rivera, circa 1988, with an ugly cast of white supremacists and skinheads.

As 2011 wraps up and we look back on the campaign preseason, the ups and downs of what s been a colorful GOP presidential primary have given us plenty of hilarious, bizarre, cringeworthy, and stomach-churning moments, some deserving of the worst (or maybe I mean best?)...